Assimilate’s New SCRATCH 9.1 Offers Groundbreaking Features and Performance for Dailies and Finishing

Increased Productivity Enables Time for Increased
Creativity

July
1, 2019 –San Jose, CA – Assimilate today
announced the most robust version of its dailies and finishing software to date
with SCRATCH 9.1. Known for its stability, speed, and streamlined workflows for
tackling complex projects with ease, SCRATCH 9.1 now includes new and extensive
groundbreaking-performance features for even greater productivity.

SCRATCH
9.1 Highlights

Dailies:
From HBO’s “Big
Little Lies 2” to Paramount’s “Yellowstone”, and feature films like “Marwen”
and “Hereditary”, DITs worldwide are using SCRATCH as their high-performance
dailies platform.

SCRATCH continues to raise the bar on what’s possible in the
production process, with access to all the advanced, real-time color, texture
and VFX tools used in SCRATCH finishing, allowing onset DITs to reach far
beyond basic color. Added features also enable more efficiencies in the
dailies tasks and workflows.

New features include:

Industry-leading integration with
Avid – includes all metadata in the Avid MXF,
more than any other software. Additionally, SCRATCH is the only software to
include all the source-shot metadata, including genuine Sound TC in Avid MXF,
which is crucial for later on in post, for example, for a Pro Tools roundtrip.

Finishing: From feature films like “Captain Fantastic”,
“Boyhood”, and “Pitch Perfect” to episodics like “Tatort” and “El Recluso”,
post-production artists rely on SCRATCH for the versatility, speed, and
stability of its color grading and finishing tools. With an extensive and powerful feature set,
SCRATCH can act as a central hub for all finishing needs.

New features include:

Groundbreaking native Touch controls for grading by clicking and dragging directly on the image. An intuitive and wholly unique new way to color and manipulate images, an artist can grade the overall image or even control curves and secondaries — all without a panel and directly where the cursor is dragging.

Extremely fast playback and rendering is now even faster.

Real-time, full-res RED 8K DeBayer on GPU

Redesigned color management system,
enabling deep control over how camera specific gamut and gamma spaces are handled
and converted, as well as a new color-space conversion plug-in (any color space
to any other) that can be applied at any stage of the color/mastering process.

Vector tool for advanced color remapping using a color grid

Automatic installation of free Matchbox Shaders, opening SCRATCH up to a wealth of real-time VFX effects, including glows, lens effects, grain add/remove, as well as more advanced creative FX.

Among
the first to support Apple’s new ProRes RAW compressed-acquisition format,
and best-in-class Blackmagic
RAW support on both OSX and Windows

New
integrations with After Effects and Nuke extend the SCRATCH 9.1 finishing/VFX
pipeline to bring the VFX teams into the client sessions with high-performance
round-tripping with VFX:

Within SCRATCH, now seamlessly send shots to
and from Nuke / After Effects, including transparencies and alphas. This opens up
SCRATCH to high-end tracking, compositing, 3D models, advanced stabilization,
motion graphics and more.

Within
the VFX pipeline, SCRATCH can act as a central hub for all finishing needs. It
provides real-time tools for any format, data management, playback, all color management in a
timeline with audio, including to and from After Effects and Nuke.

“A primary goal
for us is to quickly respond to the needs of DITs and post artists, whether
it’s for more advanced features, new format support, or real-time bug-fixes,”
said Mazze Aderhold, SCRATCH product manager at Assimilate. “Every feature
introduced in SCRATCH 9.1 is based on feedback we received from our users before
and during the Beta cycle. We thoughtfully listen and respond, which has
contributed to making SCRATCH 9.1 our most robust software version to date.”

Aderhold added,
“We continually hear from the user community how SCRATCH is outperforming
competitive software with its operating speed, rendering times, unique and intuitive
features, and stability. Users, as well as their clients, are blown away by the
powerful tool suite, responsiveness and fluid ease-of-use that SCRATCH
continues to offer.”

The complete user manual and documentation are on the support site at http://www.assimilatesupport.com/akb/Downloads.aspx.

About
Assimilate

Assimilate offers
SCRATCH dailies and post-production workflows that have proven essential to
productivity and creativity in the creation of high-end 2D/3D/VR studio and
independent feature films, documentaries, TV episodes, commercials and music
videos. SCRATCH is resolution independent, and is first to update support for
new formats. Used by DITs and post artists worldwide, SCRATCH is known for its
power, stability, speed, groundbreaking and unique feature set, and streamlined
workflows for tackling complex projects with ease. Additionally, in SCRATCH VR,
Assimilate offers the only professional end-to-end VR workflow and tools for VR360
/ 3D and VR180 / 3D, including stitching, Ambisonic sound, and live streaming. Learn
more at www.assimilateinc.com.